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My home dir is shown as completely empty. The luks file is large (180GB) and still exists.

The only relevant thing I did that I can think of is that I snap installed Spotify and uninstalled it again. Five (other) snap apps seem to take up all loop devices, see here:

From my debugging attempts, the following may be useful

service sssd status:

cat /etc/fstab:

My home dir is shown as completely empty. The luks file still exists and is large (180GB).

Debugging info:

There are five loop devices that are all taken up by snap apps, see here:

Furthermore, ls -l /var/lib/snapd/snaps shows five .snap files (corresponding to the loop devices) and that have all been touched last week. I snap installed and uninstalled Spotify last week, so this may have caused it.

The following outputs may be helpful for debugging:

cat /etc/fstab:

service sssd status:

When I enter my password on the (gnome) login screen, the screen just reloads.

I can still log in on a tty console. Login is successful but I get the error

I don't know what could have caused that. I have never (intentionally) messed with 'deeper' Linux functionality.

cat /etc/fstab:

df -h:

When I switched on my laptop, I suddenly could not log in anymore. Everything was working fine until then, I was not messing with any settings.

When I enter my password on the (gnome) login screen, the screen just reloads.

I can log in on a tty console, but I get the error

The only relevant thing I did that I can think of is that I snap installed Spotify and uninstalled it again. Five (other) snap apps seem to take up all loop devices, see here:

df -h:

cat /etc/fstab: